Re: Can cross building grub2 on X86 for target ppc64le platform?

[Andrei Borzenkov]

please attach config.log

On Fri, Dec 2, 2016 at 11:23 AM, Leno Hou <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have an ppc64le cross toolchain working on x86 which is
> powerpc64le-linux-gnu-gcc-5.0.
> Can I use this to build grub2 for ppc64le as below ? Thanks for your help !
>
> #grub-2.02_beta2_p20151217/configure --prefix=/usr
> --build=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu --host=powerpc64le-cros-linux-gnu
> --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --datadir=/usr/share
> --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var/lib --disable-dependency-tracking
> --disable-silent-rules --docdir=/usr/share/doc/grub-2.02_beta2_p20151217-r10
> --disable-werror --program-prefix= --libdir=/usr/lib
> --htmldir=/usr/share/doc/grub-2.02_beta2_p20151217-r10/html
> --disable-mm-debug --disable-grub-emu-usb --disable-device-mapper
> --disable-grub-mount --disable-nls --disable-grub-mkfont --disable-libzfs
> --disable-efiemu
>
>
>
> .......
> checking whether mbrtowc handles incomplete characters... (cached) guessing
> yes
> checking whether mbrtowc works as well as mbtowc... (cached) guessing yes
> checking whether wcrtomb return value is correct... guessing yes
> checking whether iswcntrl works... guessing yes
> checking for towlower... yes
> checking for wctype_t... yes
> checking for wctrans_t... yes
> checking whether wctype is declared without a macro... yes
> checking whether iswctype is declared without a macro... yes
> checking whether wctrans is declared without a macro... yes
> checking whether towctrans is declared without a macro... yes
> checking whether wcwidth is declared... (cached) yes
> checking whether wcwidth works reasonably in UTF-8 locales... (cached) yes
> checking for stdint.h... (cached) yes
> checking which extra warnings work...  -Wextra -Wattributes -Wendif-labels
> -Winit-self -Wint-to-pointer-cast -Winvalid-pch -Wmissing-field-initializers
> -Wnonnull -Woverflow -Wvla -Wpointer-to-int-cast -Wstrict-aliasing
> -Wvariadic-macros -Wvolatile-register-var -Wpointer-sign
> -Wmissing-include-dirs -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations
> -Wformat=2
> checking for powerpc64le-cros-linux-gnu-objcopy...
> powerpc64le-cros-linux-gnu-objcopy
> checking for powerpc64le-cros-linux-gnu-strip...
> powerpc64le-cros-linux-gnu-strip
> checking for powerpc64le-cros-linux-gnu-nm... powerpc64le-cros-linux-gnu-nm
> checking for powerpc64le-cros-linux-gnu-ranlib...
> powerpc64le-cros-linux-gnu-ranlib
> checking which extra warnings work...  -Wextra -Wattributes -Wendif-labels
> -Winit-self -Wint-to-pointer-cast -Winvalid-pch -Wmissing-field-initializers
> -Wnonnull -Woverflow -Wvla -Wpointer-to-int-cast -Wstrict-aliasing
> -Wvariadic-macros -Wvolatile-register-var -Wpointer-sign
> -Wmissing-include-dirs -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations
> -Wformat=2
> checking if compiling with clang... no
> checking for options to get big-endian compilation... no
> configure: error: could not force big-endian
> ....
>
> Leno Hou
> E-mail :  address@hidden
>
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